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History and Philosophy of Technology

FIT Acad. year 2003/2004 Winter semester 2 credits

Current academic year

The subject "History and Philosophy of Technology" represents an introduction into the particular stages of development of the technology with respect to the surrounding cultural climate and the philosophical streams on the background of which these particular chapters of the history take place. The subject deals also with the risk factors the civilization brings about, and suggestions are given how to overcome them.

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Guarantor

Klapetek Milan, ThMgr. (ICV VUT-Celoživotní)

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Completion

Credit

Time span

Department

Centre of Education and Counselling (ICV)

Subject specific learning outcomes and competences

The information transferred should provide the students with the knowledge of the amazing drama hidden behind an apparently cold and non-personal phenomenon of technology. The purpose is to establish links to the specific engineering subjects and to other branches of the culture.

Learning objectives

The target of the subject is to instigate in the listener the awareness of glorious and many thousand years long history of the technology, and to give him/her the knowledge of relationships with the entity of human culture and the resulting ethical responsibility of any individual to whom technology should become a vocation.

Study literature

  • Lilley: Stroje a lidé v dějinách. Praha, 1973
  • Jílek: Zrození velkých vynálezů. Praha, 1988
  • Marshall: Po stopách lidského pokroku. Praha, 1932

Fundamental literature

  • Bernal: Věda v dějinách. Praha, 1960
  • Numford: Technika a civilizace. Praha, 1947
  • Nový: Dějiny techniky v Československu do 18. století. Praha, 1974

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